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RESOLUTION NO. 93-/f'
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF ASHLAND APPROVING THE OREGON
TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND CALLING FOR LEGISLATIVE APPROVAL OF
THE TRANSPORTATION FUNDING PACKAGE.
RECITALS:
A. The Oregon State Legislature has directed the development of a lon!J-range
transportation plan for the State of Oregon.
B. The State, in partnership with cities and counties and with the full participation of user
and interest groups and the public, has developed the Oregon Transportation Plan
(OTP), a plan that envisions the creation over a 20-year period of a fully integrated,
balanced system that encompasses all modes of transportation.
C. Implementation of the OTP will create and maintain jobs in the state, strengthen the
economy, preserve and extend the infrastructure investment of the past, provide better
and faster connections and mobility for people and freight throughout the state,
improve air quality and the environment and reduce traffic congestion in heavily
populated areas.
D. The cities of Oregon support a transportation plan that recognizes the partnership
among transportation jursidictions; that calls for transportation facilities appropriate to
each area of the state; that makes the most efficient use possible of available and
potential funding sources; and that provides adequate and stable sources to fund
priority needs for each mode of transportation system, including roads and bridges, air
service, local bus and transit systems, ports, rail service, and bicycle and pedestrian
facilities.
E. The cities of Oregon acknowledge and appreciate the actions of past legislatures that
have allowed progress in addressing a backlog of transportation neElds within the
state, but believe that a comprehensive funding solution for all transportation modes is
required to achieve an efficient transportation system that is not in continual danger of
falling further and further behind.
F. The Transportation '93 Committee--an alliance of state and local governments, other
transportation providers, business and civic leaders, and transportation construction
and user groups--has developed and put before the 1993 Legislature a package of
legislative measures that would initiate the OTP and provide sources of funding to
begin its implementation.
G. The cities of Oregon believe that the OTP and the proposed legislative funding
package represent prudent public policy.
THE CITY OF ASHLAND RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. To support the Oregon Transportation Plan and the funding proposal now
before the 1993 Legislative Assembly and strongly urges the Legislature to provide adequate
funding sources to implement the OTP, not just to preserve and maintain t~le past investment
in transportation infrastructure, but to extend and expand the infrastructure to create the
integrated, multi-modal transportation system needed in the State of Oregon.
The foregoing resolution was READ and DULY ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City
Council of the City of Ashland on the / y';-;; day of ~l }7d-~/1~ ,1993.
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Nan E. Franklin, City Recorder
SIGNED and APPROVED this ;,/t'i day of
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Catherine M. Golden, Mayor .-
Reviewed as to form:
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Paul Nolte, City Attorney
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